Cooper Chapter 1

The level of investigation that involves the collection of facts about observed event that can be quantified, classified and examined for possible relations with other known facts, and often suggests hypotheses or questions for additional research is:

• Prediction

• Experimentation

• Description

• Control

The level of investigation in which functional relations can be derived is:

• Prediction

• Experimentation

• Description

• Control

The overall goal of is to achieve a thorough understanding of the phenomenon under study.

• Behavior Analysis

• Science

• Experimentation

• Functional relationships

This is the assumption upon which science is predicated, the idea that the universe is a lawful and orderly place in which all phenomena occur as the result of other events.

• Mentalism

• Determinism

• Empiricism

• Philisophical Doubt

This is the idea that simple, logical explanations must be ruled out, experimentally or conceptually, before more complex or abstract explanations are considered.

• Philosophical Doubt

• Experimentation

• Replication

• Parsimony

The S-R-S model of psychology is also known as:

• Three-term contingency

• Watsonian Psychology

• Respondent Behavior Model

• Reflexive Behavior Model